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Only within certain parameters. If you choose a stack that you or your early employees don’t know well or that it’s difficult to hire for, that will affect your trajectory.

But if you’re choosing between broadly comparable common stacks with comparable ecosystems, there’s no wrong choice. AWS vs Azure? Laravel vs Rails? Angular vs React? MySQL vs Postgres? Yes, there are tradeoffs, but unless those deeply affect very specific key needs (hint: for the vast majority of startups they don’t), you’ll do fine with either.